Police Brutality / Individual record
Arthur DaRosa
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Arthur DaRosa in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-05-10 in Taunton, MA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-429
- Incident date
- May 10, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Taunton, MA
- Agency
- Plymouth County Sheriff's Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 28
What happened
Arthur DaRosa, 28, was fatally shot by an off-duty Plymouth County sheriff's deputy inside a Bertucci's restaurant in Taunton, Massachusetts, on May 10, 2016. Authorities said DaRosa had crashed a vehicle, entered a home and stabbed two women, killing Patricia Slavin, 80, then drove into Silver City Galleria Mall and attacked additional people. At the mall's restaurant, he stabbed and killed schoolteacher George Heath and injured a waitress. Deputy James Creed intervened and shot DaRosa, ending the assault. The deaths of Slavin and Heath, as well as the other injured victims, must be included when describing this incident. A later Massachusetts appellate decision also examined emergency-response issues involving the initial stabbing victims.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1532
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- knife
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1259
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Additional source
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Fatal Force v2 — fatal on-duty police shootings, 2015–2024The Washington Post · Dataset